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"I taught the weeping willow how to cry, and I showed the clouds how to cover up a clear blue sky."
"I've been everywhere, man."
"There's things that never will be right, I know, and things need changin' everywhere you go."
"Happiness is being at peace, being with loved ones, being comfortable... but most of all, it's having those loved ones."
"I am not a Christian artist. I am an artist who is a Christian."
"Truth is the only thing I'll ever utter. Truth is not in me, music is in me."
"I'm not bitter. Why be bitter? You always have to think about that."
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"You build on failure. You use it as a stepping-stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space."
"I wear black because I'm comfortable in it. But then in the summertime when it's hot I'm comfortable in light blue."
"I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea, with no hope of rescue."
"I don't see much sense in that,"
"A person knows when it just seems to feel right, a time, a place, a delay."
"I knew I wanted to sing when I was a very small boy. When I was probably three years old. My mother played the organ, and I sang."
"I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion -- against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' ideas."
"I love songs about horses, railroads, land, Judgment Day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation, home, salvation, death, pride, humor, piety, rebellion, patriotism, larceny, determination, tragedy, rowdiness, heartbreak, and love. And Mother. And God."
"I aimed to be somebody. I made it."
"You can choose what you do, but you can't choose what you want."
"Being a Christian isn't for sissies. It takes a real man to live for God -- a lot more man than to live for the devil, you know?"
"I hurt myself today, to see if I still feel. I focus on the pain, the only thing that's real."
"Trust gets you killed, love gets you hurt, and being real gets you hated."
"The satisfaction doesn't come in knowing the information, but in understanding the information that you know."
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"You've got a song you're singing from your gut, you want that audience to feel it in their gut."
"There's no grave that can hold my body down."
"I wear the black for those who never read, or listened to the words that Jesus said."
"I think I've become the master of delegating responsibility."
"You've got to know your limitations. I most certainly do know mine."
"But you build a self. I think the most important thing in life is to build a self. How you do it and where you get your inspiration from, I don't know."
"You can ask the people around me. I don't give up. I just can't. It's not in my vocabulary."
"Hello, I'm Johnny Cash."
"All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate. I choose love."
"You've got to know your limitations. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it in a certain way."
"You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space."
"I don't really think about the business. I just like to make music."
"You can ask the people around me. I don't give up. I don't give up... and it's not out of frustration and desperation that I say I don't give up. I don't give up because I don't give up. I don't believe in it."
"You've got a song you're singing from your gut, you want that audience to feel it in their gut. And you've got to make them think that you're one of them sitting out there with them too."
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"I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town."
"My arms are too short to box with God."
"The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I've got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer."
"I love to go and watch those kinds of movies that make you bend your brain and think. I get a big kick out of that."
"I don't know where it comes from, but I don't think you can say the things I do, if you don't believe."
"That's the real reason I work - to hear the applause of that audience. It's a rock concert. I can fake that I'm equally at home in a prison or mental hospital, I can fake that in the studio, but I cannot fake that in front of an audience. I have to go out there as good as I think I am, and go out there and put on the best show that I can."
"Being a good father - well, that's the most important thing there is. But my work is also important to me. You know, I worry about it because I have to travel a lot."
"In my life, things have only mattered to me when I'm committed to them, and I mean, I have no choice but to perform."
"God is a lifesaver; maybe when I think I'm drowning, he throws me a rope!"
"I hope I go to Heaven, and when I do, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does when he gets there. He looks around and says, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'"
"Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money."
"Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight."
"The beast in me is caged by frail and fragile bars."
"You can ask the people around me. I don't give up. I don't give up... Nobody but me can stop myself."
"I'm not bitter. Why should I be bitter? I'm thrilled to death with life."
"We're all going to die, and we all bleed red. It's very simple, so let's be nice to people."
"You build on failure. You use it as a stepping-stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy or any of your time, or any of your space."
"I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion - against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' ideas."
"I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television."
"All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate... I choose love."
"A person trying to swing the audience, he can't do it. It's like running after a girl; if she's willing to be caught, she'll be caught."
"Close scrutiny will show that most 'crisis situations' are opportunities to either advance or stay where you are."
"There's no way around grief and loss: you can dodge all you want, but sooner or later you just have to go into it, through it, and, hopefully, come out the other side. The world you find there will never be the same as the world you left."
"It's good to know who hates you, and it is good to be hated by the right people."
"I'm not a politician. I just sing about what I know."
"I guess I wind people up the wrong way at times."
"I have tried drugs, and a little of everything else, and there is nothing in the world more soul-satisfying than having the kingdom of God building inside you and growing."
"Being a Christian isn't for sissies. It takes a real man to live for God - a lot more man than to live for the devil, you know?"
"You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way."
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